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Page 49 of 671911 · PDF PAGE 141
…n. All images are useless. Blackness, blackness intolerable, before the beginning of the light. This is the first verse of Genesis. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms! Oh, blue! blue! blue! whose reflection in the Abyss is called the Great One of the Night of Time; between ye vibrat- eth the Lord of the Forces of Matter. O Nox, Nox, qui celas infamiam infandi nefandi, Deo solo sit laus qui dedit signum non scribendum. Laus virgini cuius stuprum tradit salutem. O Night, that givest suck from thy paps to sorcery, a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 160
THE EQUINOX But as he parted his voice broke out again: Nor canst thou win her with the Sword, for her eyes are fixed upon the eyes of Him in whose hand is the hilt of the Sword. Despair! Despair! And the echo of that cry was his word, which is identical, although it be diverse: Nor canst thou win her by the Serpent, for it was the Serpent that seduced her first. Despair! Despair! (Yet he cried thus as he fled:) Iam Leviathan, the great Lost Serpent of the Sea. I writhe eternally in torment, and I lash the ocean with my tail into a whirlpool of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 92
… of them that understand, holdeth out his hands, and boweth his neck, unto the chains of Choronzon. And as a devil he walketh about the earth, immortal, and he blasteth the flowers of the earth, and he corrupteth the fresh air, and he maketh poisonous the water; and the fire that is the friend of man, and the pledge of his aspiration, seeing that it mounteth ever upward as a pyramid, and seeing that man stole it in a hollow tube from Heaven, even that fire he turneth unto ruin, and madness, and fever, and destruction. And thou, that art an heap…
1919 · PDF PAGE 270
…ous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous. During this speech the Priestess must have divested herself completely of her robe. See CCXX. I. 62. THE Priestess. But to love me is better than all things; if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…roteus until from running water he turned into a man again . To my thinking the common abnegation , in one day , of this most difficult part of the poet 's business may well account for the public neglect into which poetry has fallen as a pretty occupation for sensitive souls . Until we take the trouble to re - clothe it in con . crete forms — and the old forms lie ready to our hand , while new ones are well worth inventing — the virtuose may applaud , but we shall miss the catholic appeal of great art . This small but sufficient volume of Camb…
1906 · PDF PAGE 93
…alace-place of Pelias, Son of Poseidon, of Iolchus King. JASON. Iolchus’ King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great Aeson’s heir. MEN. We learn good news, most enviable sir ; That Aeson hath such grand inheritance. JASON. You have grown fat beneath an evil rule. Your period is at hand. Go, one of you, And drag the impious wretch before my sight ! MEN. Aeson? Thy father? JASON. Play not with my wrath ! My mood is something dangerous. MEN. Dangerous sir, I go indeed, to bring some …
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
…n attempts to do so for our selves , without knowledge, or even the necessary in struction as to the subtle adjustment of the different parts . And it is on account of the want of this “ I ” that all science resting on the inquiry “ What do I know ? ” without the “ I” being analytically disclosed , must , and does , rest upon knowledge purely accidental or hypothetical . It is quite as possible for hypothetical arguments to be rightly and wrongly applied , as it is for mechan ical tools . A pick - axe is a most useful implement in levelling a r…
1911 · PDF PAGE 82
…says: I tell thee not. Thou tellest thyself, for thou hast pondered thereupon for many days, and hast not found light. And now that thou art called NEMO, the answer to every riddle that thou hast not found shall spring up in thy mind, unsought. Who can tell upon what day a flower shall bloom? And thou shalt give thy wisdom unto the world, and that shall be thy garden. And concerning time and death, thou hast naught to do with these things. For though a precious stone be hidden in the sand of the desert, it shall not heed for the wind of the des…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…lity, but imprisonment. Civilisation is a madness ; and while there are men like Frédéric there is a hope that it will pass. Woe to the earth when Bumble and Rockefeller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic sat down on his favourite bench against the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have thought, and now covered with a dry, green lichenous rot, so that the limbs were swollen and distorted. It gave an inc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…lity, but imprisonment. Civilisation is a madness ; and while there are men like Frédéric there is a hope that it will pass. Woe to the earth when Bumble and Rockefeller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic sat down on his favourite bench against the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have thought, and now covered with a dry, green lichenous rot, so that the limbs were swollen and distorted. It gave an inc…
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
…e, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit in the face of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly οί thy wife, and let the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures. Il. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacra- ment of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations. 12. And beholdl if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of thine, then shalt thou be c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
…e, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit in the face of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly οί thy wife, and let the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures. Il. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacra- ment of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations. 12. And beholdl if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of thine, then shalt thou be c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
…, but only a voice, very slow and clear and deliberate. But now the vision returns, and the voice says: Thou shalt be called Danae, that art stunned and slain beneath the weight of the glory of the vision that as yet thou seest not. For thou shalt suffer many IV z 113
1922 · PDF PAGE 38
…s of all that was going on around her, absolute mistress of herself and of her environment; yet at the same time she was lost in some unearthly form of rapture of a kind which, while essentially unintelligible to me, reminded me of certain strange and fragmentary experiences that I had had while flying. I suppose every one has read The Psychology of Flying by L. de Giberne Sieveking. All I need do is to remind you of what he says :— | ‘* All types of men who fly are conscious of this very obscure, subtle difference that it has wrought in them. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…r less technical language in which it is written. The essence of MAGICK is simple enough in ail conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government. The Aim is simply prosperity; but the theory is tangled, and the practice beset with briars. In the same wav MAGICK is merely to be and to do. I should add: ato suffer”. For Magick is the verbj and it is part of the Training to use the passive voice. This is, however, a matter of Initiation rather than of Magick in - XXVI
1929 · PDF PAGE 207
…nce with a tabloid and married into a pill- box", we thought that all was over. But no! he went around the world, and set to 1. C. Paul Bartlett, N.J.W.Morrice, D.Crowley, L.Kelly, I.Heward Bell, J. Ivor Back, I. One Kite, G?, B. Penrhyn Stanlaws, S. One Root. (348) work with his powers of observation to help an imagination which had by no become original and vigorous. He turned out some first-class work; and, what is in some ways better, work on the right side. He castigates the herd of many swine feeding which we call society --- as it is now…
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
…latteris ‘no tragedy of little tears,’ but the utterance of a god-like grief. ‘ The Priestess of Panormita’ is an extremely fine work of art; the right of selection has been exercised to the utmost, there are no superfluous words, no vague images, everything iis precise, clear-cut, and strong. ‘Bathyllus’ is a beautiful poem;... ‘The Ladder’ is a fine lyric describing the ascen- sion up the middle pillar of the Tree of Life, from Malkuth to Kether. ‘Telepathy,’ ‘The Opium Smoker,’ ‘ The Muse,’ are all poems which will grip and hold the soul of …
1911 · PDF PAGE 77
…re knowledge. There is no more bliss. There is no more power. There is no more beauty. For this is the Palace of Understanding: for thou art one with the Primeval things. Drink in the myrrh of my speech, that is bruised with the gall of the roc, and dissolved in the ink of the cuttle-fish, and perfumed with the deadly nightshade. This is thy wine, who wast drunk upon the wine of Iacchus. And for bread shalt thou eat salt, O thou on the corn of Ceres that didst wax fat! For as pure being is pure nothing, so is pure wisdom pure ,* and so is pure …
1911 · PDF PAGE 110
… in the Book of the Law, “Wisdom says, be strong. Then canst thou bear more joy.” “If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of Art.” And this shall signify unto thee that thou must undergo great discipline; else the Vision were lost or perverted. For these mysteries pertain not unto thy grade. Therefore must thou invoke the Highest before thou unveil the shrines thereof. And this shall be thy rule: A thousand and one times shalt thou affirm the unity, and bow thyself a thousand and one times. And thou shalt recite thrice the call of t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 47. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. 48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods ; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa, the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. …